ExPatinFrance doesn't get it.
"Europe is just doing what the U.S. already does, except for them it is countries banding together and for us it is states."
Comparing the EU and the US is comparing apples and oranges. There is a huge difference.
The US is one people under one Constitution. Americans share a common history, common culture, common language and common values. People have come here from all over the world, but they become Americans, b y choice, not by coercion.
Almost all believe in the same economic system.... Free enterprise Capitalism .
Americans hold a shared belief system which is basically "the less government the better" and believe in individual rights and freedoms, and the rule of law. We share a common legal system and a shared belief in the US Constitution.
No "supra-governmental" law governs how farmers in Vermont make their cheese,nor how farmers in Kansas how they raise their cattle.
Europeans, especially the British, should look before they leap into this abyss.
The next step? World Court? World Government?
Not on our watch!
That's what I've been trying to say, as well. It's amazing that they are overlooking all of this. For a lot of reasons. They have facts staring them in the face that it's ALREADY not working very well, and they want to plunge in even further?
Scary.